Sometimes conductive hearing loss can be corrected with surgery called a stapedectomy. I was told by two ENT doctors that I needed that procedure to restore my hearing. I put it off b/c one in one hundred surgeries result in total deafness in that ear b/c of unusual location of a nerve that can be inadvertently cut through. Finally, I decided to get it done. I went to a surgeon that was featured in “D” Magazine as the best in Dallas according to some survey or other. He recommended another surgery called a Bilateral Chain Reconstruction. He said that the beauty of this surgery was that there was no chance of inadvertent deafness as could happen with a stapedectomy and that he could go back and correct any hearing loss that might remain post surgery. After surgery on both ears, I had no improvement but my hearing tests showed slight differences in results so I opted to have him try again in each ear. Same results only now I had “crickets” in both ears plus, oddly, and perhaps not related, I had taste bud problems. He sold me 5K hearing aids and sent me to a dentist/doctor who supposedly worked with tongue anomalies. No help resulted. I have been to two ENT doctors since who tell me this is a “bizarre” story and should never have been done. Luckily I have the operative notes to prove the doctor did this bizarre surgery. One doctor said I should have had the stapedectomy, the other says I just need another 5K hearing aide. I just don’t trust any of them. I did buy a Boze OTC hearing aide which is no better, no worse than the 5K hearing aids. Maybe they would work for nerve deafness but not conductive loss.